Kitani Mohabbat A Memoir.......-Vikas Gupta

guyz ..found this on VG' fan page on FB.was super excited n happy..was diein to share wit u eva sinc i read it...its an old post..was written by him wen KMH ended..

Vikas Gupta hi ....
well to tell you the truth i was not really sure if i would feel da same way as i felt for kyunki and kis desh , for any show specifically kItani Mohabbat hai ..... this was the show which i got when kis desh was taken away and i was so angry ..... not realising tht one day i shall feel the same way about kitani also .... as i am feeling today when the last episode of kitani is to be aired...

When B D asked me to do kitani i wasnt so excited , really i was kinda depressed for kdmhmd being taken away ...... everyone was super excited about the show ... and working so hard endlessly to find the Arjun ND aROHI THAT everyone will love so much .........

and the expectations from whoever was to play the lead was huge as it was a love story and was about the two of them ..... B D 's brief was just two people and their moments ... even the posters and hording had just two of them and moments .... but we are so happy facebook came into existence and came into balaji and B D learnt it cause Kitani got its Arjun from Facebook .......

Karan sent his pics and than his audtion throught the net and was selected .... thanks to her we kitani got its Arjun and it was the first tyme the excitement touched me ....... but arohi was still remaining ... . Sanchi was going Mad for arohi and the girl shortlisted was not able to perform and than kritika came into my mind ..... we went and asked her ... she asked us to do the look test along with 3 more gurls .... lot of the team was not sure but when she wore the suit and the nose ring things changed and we did a look test with them ... trust me the look test that we had with kritika hair flying and karan holding her .... had this feeling that we have our leads ....

kritika too wasnt sure about doing arohi { will u believe it } but after 3 hours of conversation at 4 in the morinig she gave in but channel wanted someone else But Luckily B D i think had liked her in the look test and thnks to the stamp of a certain person ...... B D said she wants Kritika as Arohi ... and channel also had to agree with her .....

so we had Kk and KK and Arjun Punj Nd Arohi SHarma ....

: )

kritika and me knew each other from before so when ever we met , we talked a lot and i also have been nursing a crush over her for over a year .... and it was so obvious ... but whenevr we met we would speak of everything under the world and karan would just sit and listen ... [ he doesnt talk so much high funda stuff} at that tyme i was more friendly with kritika but today karan is someone i m more close to ... he is my brother from another mother { i got that line from hanish , who got it from dostana i guess}

the shoot was to start the next day and in the night fatima and vandy { our writers } got a call ...... about giving it a completely different start from what was planned and putting arjun in jail and puting the story in flashback .... some eyebrows were raised but it became the best thing for the show .... the twist got so much intrigue value to the story of arjun and arohi ... than we were shooting the title montage .... and didnt have the right colour clothes for arohi .. and dm { director } were discussing and though of making it white but B D had said she wanted colors but took a chance and cld her , she was at tirupati i guess..... and to our suprise she agreed and thus we had the all white title montage ... the song credit goes to to nivedita basu .... and than about the same tyme Priyanka { nariman point ki rudali }joined the show . she is important to be mentioned cause she has cried the maximum and has really be the one who has been the maximum on the show cause lot of us changed but she was constant on the show. the first one to leave was me {ouch } yup even before it went on air ....

what hapened after i left ... i dont know but whoever worked on the show from sanchi to ipshita to sandeep made it one hell of a rocking show..... it became the youngest and the most amazing love story of its tyme . i was lucky to come back and again becam e a part of this project and it is at this tyme i got hooked. karan and kritika were in shooting all the tyme and trust me it was all the tyme ..... but it was fun to shoot with them ... they were so bloody commited ... it got you excited to work as well ...

and than vady and sonali maam were really helpful to make me understand the scene cause i would go a little dramatic sometymes and finally understood it was more fun than drama ...... got a chance to do some really fantastic moments .... which B D came up with ..... My Particular Fav ones are the joker one ... the scne after the train to mmbai Happens .... i almost got beaten up for this one though 'lol ..... but man there are so many memories.....

once some of us went to crepe station and in the feedback form Karan worte name arjun punj
adress shimla
date of birth capricorn { cause there was scene where he was told he is capricorn i guess}
and in comments ... pls wattch kitani mohabbat on ndtv at 8 pm and 10.30 pm ... mon to fri
hahahahahaha we were laughing on the floor...

i mean there so many of such ,moments that .... i will always remember .... i also got a chance to work with pooja , shrest , akshu , viruji again, sheeba
but will miss that i dint get to work with neena gupta , love her as an actress.
lot of people worked really hard on the show ...... willl try to give names ... if miss out some one than sorry
B D
Anil V Kumar [avk]
sanchi
priyanka
swati
hanish
vandana
fatima
sonali maam
fahad
navneet
vikkiji
all the actors ofcourse
and i am sure quite a lot more .......


i would lyke to thank ....... you for making me part of this .... and giving me such memories that i will never forget ....... and will cherish ... i am so glad for karan and kritika ....

LOve

ViKaS GuPta